The hatred of Christianity
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:30:10 -0500 (CDT) (00873185410, 199709020130.UAA27046@cdale3.midwest.net)
At 02:22 PM 9/1/97 -0400, caseyc@ALPHA.WCOIL.COM wrote:
>TILL (91)
>I looked for it in my files and couldn't find it. Does anyone have handy
>the quotation from Einstein in which he said that he did not believe in life
>after death and could not believe in a god that punishes people after death?
>
>
>CASEY (9/1)
>Is this what you're looking for?
>
>"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
>fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true
>science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel
>amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience
>of mystery-even if mixed with fear--that engendered religion. A knowledge
>of the existence of something we cannot penetrate...it is this knowledge
>and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this
>sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive
>of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type
>of which we are conscious in ourselves.
>An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my
>comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or
>absurd egoism of feeble souls. Enough for me the mystery of the eternity
>of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together
>with the single-hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so
>tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature."
>--Albert Einstein, *The World As I See It*
>
TILL
Yes, this was it.
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net